Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-16
LOCAL BREyITIES.

A fruit sps,,,. went East last evening, an'
another is going to night
| Charles Fl. Hooper has pSen appointed
Commissioner of Deeds, % reside IN thu
city OF New York.
Considerable spurious coin of half and
quarter-dollaf denominations has got iHto
circulation at Woodland.
There are kilograms at the Western Union
Telegraph Office for NJ. D. Beyeu, Frank
| McManus and DR.. ]. 4. Weldon.
The State Board of Equalization was en-
gagged yesterday in an examination of the
| assessment of Sacramento county.
Turton & Knox, of this city, commenced
| yesterday the work of grading the new line
of railroad from Napa Junction TO Santa
Rosa.
But two arrests were made yesterday
Hong Gee, by Deputy Sheriff Eldred for
misdemeanor, and Louis de Near, by officer
Mclaughlin, for being drunk.
Henry Langton and George Morehouse.
who undertook to collect money for the
relief of Mrs. Miller, as mentioned in our
last issue, had received 1852 up to last
evening.
Henry Dirking, visitor to the city from
Colusa, went around to see the sights last
Saturday evening, and while he was so en-
gagged was in some mysterious manner re-
lieved of his gold watch and chain.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 500, being 10 cooler than the
normal temperature for that day. The
highest and lowest temperature was $50 and
520, with fresh soutEerly winds and clear
weather.
Messrs. Hodson, Eldred and others ship
ped their stables of race horses to San jose
yesterday, to compete during the races of
the fair to be held there this week, and
many sporting men went down to try and
turn an honest dollar
Miss NJ. Murray, of No. Is East One hun
dred and thirty-fourth street, Harlem, New |
\ orR, wishes information concerning her !
aunt, Mrs: Sarah Miller, formerly Mrs. Sa- |
rah McKenna who is supposed to reside in |
this section of the State
Eugene A. Palmer, while working at the |
railroad machine shop yesterday morning, |
was knocked down by an iron frame which |
was being hoisted. 1t was found when he |
was examined at the Railroad Hospital |
that his injuries were not serious.
The overland express train from the East |
was about an hour and a half late in its |
arrival Yesterday morning, owing TO its |
having been unable, because of its heavy |
load, to make up loss Of time. II brought |
fourteen cars, including four sleepers and |
three carloads of immigrants.
Superintendent Shelley. of the Shelley |
fish Matching establishment in Nevada |
county, who recently placed 10000 young
trout in the American river. near Shngle |
Springs, under direction of the Fish Com
missioners, will to-day leave FOR Cotton, San !
Bernardino county, with 10000 young fish,
to be planted in streams in that vicinity
Yesterday the Governor made the follow
ing appointments OF Notaries Jarrett +. |
Richards. Santa Barbara n. o. Bradley, |
Visalia; J. NJ. Johnson, Fresno II. A. |
Blodget, Bakersfield Jasper n. Turner,
San Luis Obispo A. ]. Moulty, Bakers
field; Thomas ]. Reardon, Salinas CITY. |
and G. S. LIE Baron, Banning San Bernar- |
dino.
Thomas Watkins, young man VINO was !
an employee in the railroad shops until |
taken sick last November, died last evening |
at the railroad hospital. Mr.. Watkins was |
without relations on this coast, but has had |
the full care and advantages afforded at the |
railroad hospital, and also the care and at
tention of the Young Mems Christian AS |
ISOLATION, of which he was member His |
funeral will take place from the as5ocia. |
tons rooms tomorrow afternoon. |
A number of boys, large and small, have |
been amusing themselves during the even |
ings lately in jumping on and off the cars |
of the East-bound express train as it passes |
through the railroad yard, in the vicinity |
of the rolling mills, after leaving the depot. |
They appear to be possessed with an idea of |
becoming railroad men, and therefore prac- |
tice swinging upon the cars and jumping |
Oft, as they have seen train men do. When |
told to desist, and demonstrated with, they |
use language much stronger than the aver
age railroad man would deem necessary, |
which shows that they have progressed too |
rapidly in that particular. If they con-
tinue their practice upon the cars it is |
probable that they will soon be furnishing |
shocking items for the nnrusnannrs